Foreign Sec: Our diplomats are doing all they can

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David Lammy announced new measures against Israel but Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers urged him to go further. The Government will impose new sanctions on three individuals and four entities involved in the settler movement, and has suspended negotiations with the Israeli government on a new free trade agreement. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00My concern that the denial of essential humanitarian assistance to a civilian population is unacceptable

00:07and risks breaching international humanitarian law that I suspended arms back in September.

00:14I want us to get back to a ceasefire. I want us to get back to diplomacy.

00:19There can't be a role for Hamas, but there can never be a role for using food as a tool of war.

00:28Our issue today, and why I've taken the decisions I've taken about a new free trade agreement,

00:37about a review of the roadmap, and why I've announced further sanctions,

00:41is because of the position of this Netanyahu government and the language that we see from these ministers.

00:50It was why I was so shocked that his own front bench couldn't stand up and find their own moral authority.

00:56I am proud of what we have done since coming to government, right from the beginning.

01:02I want to see an end to this war.

01:05He knows that, and our diplomats are doing all they can to try and use our lever to bring this war to an end.

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